The Ministry of Finance allows the possibility of regulating cryptocurrencies, dividing them into three types: technical tokens,virtual assets - Bitcoins and digital financial assets. About it writes RNS with reference to the statement of Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev.
“We met on Monday evening at the RSPP. There was a very good discussion, and we found some approaches to how to move, maybe even not solving the problems that we have that I spoke about, ”he said.
According to Moiseyev, “conditionally can be dividedthere are three types of cryptocurrencies: technical tokens that occur to maintain the functioning of the system, virtual assets, that is, Bitcoins, and a digital financial asset - relatively speaking, ICO. ”
“If you adjust them among themselves and adjust digital financial assets and a technical coin, then this will be enough for business,” the deputy finance minister added.
Recall that earlier, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance and the State Duma to ensure the adoption of the bill on digital financial assets by November 1, 2019.
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